Get Egg-cited! How to Make Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs With Your Instant Pot (2024)

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How do you keep hard-boiled eggs from cracking in the Instant Pot? ›

The water level should be just below the steamer basket. Add all the eggs: Use cold eggs, straight from the fridge. You can cook as many eggs as you like at one time, but be careful of wedging eggs too firmly against one another or stacking eggs on top of each other since these can cause eggs to crack.

Add your eggs to your pressure cooker. with a cup of water. and set it to manual high heat for 6 minutes. Let it do a natural release for 6 minutes, then put them in an ice bath for 6 minutes.

Eggs: You can do anywhere from 2 to 12 eggs (or more if they fit comfortably in your IP!). The timing and amount of water stays the same no matter how many you are doing at a time! Water: You always have to have some liquid for the Instant Pot to function properly.

Put the pot over high heat and bring to a boil. Once the water is at a rolling boil, turn off the heat and cover the pot with the lid. Allow the eggs to sit in the hot water for the following times according to the desired doneness: 3 minutes for SOFT boiled; 6 minutes for MEDIUM boiled; 12 minutes for HARD boiled.

Make sure your eggs are not submerged in water as this could affect the final result of the eggs. If using warm water, you may want to shorten the time from 5 minutes to 4 minutes, as warm water will take a shorter time to come to pressure.

Sure, it requires only 10 minutes cook time while the air fryer requires 15 minutes. However, you still need to wait for the Instant Pot to come up to pressure, which can take 15-20 minutes plus the quick release time at the end takes a few minutes so the air fryer is definitely the quicker way to cook them.

Carefully place the eggs in a large saucepan; add cold water to cover by one inch, and bring to a rolling boil. Cover pan; remove from heat. Let stand 12 minutes, then drain and rinse under cool water. To store, keep eggs unpeeled in the refrigerator, up to 4 days.

You might have heard that you should drop your eggs into room temperature or cold water and then bring the water to a boil. This is a myth. In our tests, bringing the water to a boil first and then lowering the eggs into the bath made for easy peeling and more accurate timing.

Lower the heat slightly – so the eggs don't crack due to being bashed around but water is still at a gentle boil. Start the timer – 6 minutes for runny yolks, 8 minutes for soft boiled, 10 minutes for classic hard boiled, 15 minutes for unpleasant rubbery whites and powdery dry yolks.

Use about a 2 teaspoon of vinegar or a half teaspoon of salt per two cups of water. Gently pierce the rounded end of the egg with a pin or a needle before boiling. This can create a tiny hole, allowing air to escape and reducing the risk of cracking.

How to make hard boiled eggs with cracked eggs? ›

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You can hard boil 12 eggs at once without having to peel any of them. Crack 12 eggs into a greased 7 inch cake pan. The eggs go into the Instant Pot on high pressure for 9 minutes. Add one and a/2 cups of water into the Instant Pot.

Close the pot, set it to sealing and then cook on 'Manual' or 'Pressure Cook', 'High Pressure' for 5 minutes. Once the pot has completed the 5 minute cook time, allow it to do a 5 minute Natural Pressure Release (NPR). Prepare an ice bath by filling a bowl with ice and water.

How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs in the Instant Pot. You guys this really is so simple. All you need to remember is the 5-5-5 method – 5 minutes cooking under high pressure using 2 1/2 cups of water, 5 minutes letting the pressure naturally release then 5 minutes in an ice bath.

The trivet helps to keep the eggs nicely arranged so they don't collide during cooking and risk cracking, but the eggs should cook just fine without it. Note that not using a trivet *could* be why your eggs explode in the Instant Pot.